RUSSIA: 5th anniversary of the ban of Jehovah’s Witnesses: Statistics about the repression
JW World Headquarters (20.04.2022) – April 20, 2022 will mark five years since Russia’s Supreme Court criminalized the activity of Jehovah’s Witnesses,…
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